Can someone please explain to me why my computer keeps rebooting itself every 10 minutes or less and starting over. i cant get anything accomplished. I thought at first it was my hard drive and with the help from you all, I formated it, then had troube with it again, so i got a new hard drive, everything worked perfect for like a day, reinstalled programs, now it reboots itself every ten minutes or so. My fan isnt dirty and and seems to be working perfect, it wasnt the old hard drive because i got a new one . Please help

Hi there. You said "everything worked perfect for like a day, reinstalled programs, now it reboots itself every ten minutes or so." Well there's your answer, there's something in the software on your computer forcing it to shutdown. Try completely deleting your HDD through DOS, and then format it and install windows again. Then, only install essential and TRUSTWORTHY applications that you need. Like, Virus protection, and msn and stuff like that, things that (for a better guess) have microsoft's aproval and you should be right. Hope I helped.

don't believe all the info you read here. Reformattting the hard drive is RARELY necessary. buying a new harddrive is almost never necessary. You have a trojan or a virus that you reinstalled. Install, update & then run AdAware SpyBot Search & Destroy Spywareblaster Delete anything they say is bad. put up a new post if you still have problems, but put it in the virus forum. say you already ran all the above software. good luck

Hi y'all, fxwizard728, Good suggestions up above... You might want to try going to Display ( in your control panel) and open the screen saver tab..At the bottom right corner click settings...In the three dropdowns enter "NEVER" in all three... See if that helps your problem.. Happy Holidays beansoup

You've received some good suggestions. If you don't find a bug or virus in your installed software or haven't restored any files with traces of viruses, or aren't going to a specific website that loads somethin in the background then try this... Maybe hardware failure, like a bad motherboard. Its way less common than the other things you have heard, but i have seen it happen often at the workplace. And that isn't just my opinion, our faulty pcs were under warranty and the manufacturer techs came out and replace the motherboard because of it. And our visible symptoms were pcs rebooting themselves. Also might be bad ram. I am not saying to assume this just keep it in mind. But DO CHECK out the virus issue first!!!! Cheers, Matt